Reagan was well into Alzheimers when he supposedly made the AK-47 statement. I’ve always had a gut feeling that statement was made under instructions from Nancy after his brain was pretty well fogged.
(Comment under my recent article)
First of all, I addressed his Alzheimer’s in my poll results link. I’ve been hearing that desperate excuse-making for damn near 20 years now.
There’s no “supposedly” about it. Reagan made the statement in Feb. 1989 at the University of Southern California in a 78th-birthday event widely covered by the media (go to 43 minutes in). You tell me if he sounds senile. His official letter announcing he had “recently been told” he was afflicted with Alzheimer’s was written in Nov. 1994.
This is not difficult. If you want the man’s record on guns… Look at his actions as governor of California ie. Open carry, or his signature on the FOPA. He didn’t believe in liberty or gun rights. I just don’t understand the “conservative” fascination with Reagan. The man was an absolute menace to civil liberties.
We need to be mature enough to recognize the failings of our favorite leaders as well as their successes. I voted for DJT twice, but do not consider myself a “MAGA” guy. And I will never forgive him for the gratuitous and unnecessary bump stock ban.
Sounds pretty damn deliberate to me…